I was actually just about to ask about this. It would be nice to finish the run. I figured everybody just took a break for the Holiday season and my job is always really busy at year end/Begining but I would most definitey like to play if anybody else wants to._________________Kathy in St. Louis

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Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 11:52 pm Post subject:

For a brief moment when I was a kid watching the show, I thought Little Ricky was adorable. After a while, those ditties got on my nerves. Now, what bugs me more than "The Bicycle Song" is a show producer's claim that they couldn't give much storyline to Chris and Tracy because they were "just kids". Yet they hired a younger kid and gave him a bigger spotlight than Chris and Tracy ever had!

Yes, the claim that Brian and Suzanne were just too young to handle more of a storyline I always felt was a complete cop out. The fact is they chose not to write more lines for them. Looking at the episode when Chris and Tracy run away from home, it is clear they were very capable to handle more lines and more storylines.

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Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 6:18 pm Post subject:

Couldn't agree more, Topanga. I also think there was a nice rapport between them - totally believable as brother & sister. The producers and writers could have developed those characters a lot more. The Cosby Show comes to my mind (with the fuzzy memory) as a show that didn't ignore the youngest in the cast.